I actually found out it covers 5 parishes but they only had voting locations in 3, which makes the first come first serve thing even more bizarre.

The election was for one member on a board. The only reason there was an election was because a new candidate challenged the incumbent candidate, which usually never happens. Usually people remain on the board for as long as they would like to hold that position. Why this seat in particular?

The incumbent is the only board member from Orleans, and runs community gardens throughout the city, so I would argue that if anything, Orleans has a considerable amount to do with this particular election. How did the registrar even come up with that number if this is the first of its kind of election for this district?

I believe another member of the board will have a seat that can be challenged soon. If that seat is challenged, whichever Parish that board member is from hopefully gets a lot of support behind them of the people of the parish feel they’re doing a good job.

Also find it a little suspicious, this guy challenging her seat is a commercial fishing captain, and recently Louisiana Republicans passed a bill to deregulate seafood safety and hand oversight to the department that controls this board.

Actually found out the district covers 5 parishes but they only had voting locations in 3.

There is a separate registrar for each parish, so who is the “official” registrar they mention in the article and how did she generate that expect around 20 voters at each location number?

That’s the thing though, is it just incompetence or is it an attempt to see what people are willing to let slide?

We definitely need a re-do bc otherwise it signals that we’re ok with letting it happen again and again. Will there be enough ballots when it’s time for us to vote for elections with more at stake like mayor or in the midterms?

I could see low expectations from the registrar of voters for turnout, but 60 people in the entire city? And they just didn’t have any kind of plans if more showed up?

We’re the first state to start using the DOGE voter database maintenance system. Will we end up with some kind of “glitch” that purges voters on top of being told the registrar made a miscalculation when estimating how many people would actually show up to vote?

What they’re supposed to start doing here (or at least they were when the last governor left office, not sure if they still will do it now that democracy is crumbling) is paper and then scan every ballot so it can also be included in recounts.

As of now with most elections in LA, it’s electronic only and votes don’t get included in recounts unless they’re mail in.

It’s not paper ballots I’m pissed about, (but like I said, it also seems like that could open up the door to more BS given what happened in the recount) it’s the fact that anyone would pretend 900 ballots would be enough for the entire city, and that they had no backup plan for when they weren’t.

So now I come to you, with open arms

Well again, we were told by our president earlier this week our ally Russia was handling Iran and that was why we should just step back and let them fuck up Ukraine.

Meanwhile, our good friends in the Russian government and the state controlled media, have been cheering on destabilization of the U.S. and the production of Civil War! being put on in L.A. by the POTUS

Enjoy the military parade this weekend. I wonder who could have inspired that brilliant idea? 🤔

Moscow Victory Day Parade

Also, a friendly reminder once again, the original members of the Heritage Foundation spent a lot of time in Russia prior to and immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, helping to create Russia’s very first “free market.”

“You capture the Soviet Union --I’m going to capture the states.”-Thomas Roe to fellow Heritage Foundation member Robert Krieble

They also established centers for freedom and democracy throughout Eastern Europe. Despite everything that would seem to indicate Putin despises democracy, Putin liked the ideas of the Heritage Foundation so much, he started creating think tanks of his own.

2009: In the Heart Of New York, Russia’s ‘Soft Power’ Arm Gaining Momentum

Migranyan says the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation is not financed with Kremlin money, and that Kucherena depends on support from private sponsors. Nevertheless, the institute’s views rarely diverge from that of the Kremlin’s. Neither does one of its key stated goals – studying Western democracy and “offering recommendations for its improvement.” Founder Kucherena has argued that no country can monopolize the definition of democracy and human rights.

2015: Pro-Putin Think Tank Based In New York Shuts Down

Migranyan used the institute to function as a kind of unofficial spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. Migranyan told the Associated Press in 2008 that the creation of the institute had been approved by the Kremlin, but that it was funded privately through business donations.

That sounds kinda familiar… Oh yeah, it’s because it’s the same way the first free market of Russia was described in that 1991 Washington Post article about the first U.S.-Russia business created by the Heritage Foundation

Businessman Robert Krieble, who donated fax machines, computers and copiers to dissidents in the Soviet Union when “they were illegal,” Lozansky said, is one of the financial supporters.

“Russia House is not financed by governments but by private people,”

Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 US election - documents

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•What Is Truth (Live at The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)

All war, all the time, 24/7/365! Are you not entertained, America?

Meanwhile, Trump has suddenly been playing that good guy cop role very hard over the last few days and pretending like he was actually urging Netenyahu to stop the war in Gaza.

Trump also agreed to back away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and allow Putin to retaliate against Ukraine with as much force as they felt necessary in exchange for Russia allegedly keeping Iran in check.

As all this was happening, Trump had a very public Twitter war with Elon Musk, and while everyone was paying attention to that, most people missed that Netenyahu admitted he had been arming the bans of criminals in Gaza with ties to Isis, who have been accused of raiding aid supplies for citizens who are being starved and murdered while trying to reach the official aid checkpoints allowed by Israel.

Also on the same day, the Trump administration sanctioned judges in the ICC who had created an arrest warrant for Netenyahu over war crimes.

Our long term allies in Europe are standing with those ICC judges against the Trump administration, but again, most people in the U.S. are unaware of this bc they were being distracted by the show put on for them by two grown men with way too much money and power.

Meanwhile in the Israeli government, Netenyahu failed to pass a law that would keep his most conservative base from being drafted and subject to the same laws the rest of Israel is subject to. This risked his position of power and led to a vote on Wednesday that would have dissolved his government. It didn’t pass, but the vote proved he has lost support due to the way he’s leading his country. 24 hours later, once he was reassured his power was safe, he does this and makes comments that he actually had Trump’s full support before Trump released any comments or acknowledgements about what he did.

Also sounds like Netenyahu is very much planning to invade Iran, and parroting similar talking points made by Trump earlier this week regarding a different war.

Trump pledges to ‘liberate’ LA as he visits troops at Fort Bragg

Netanyahu thanks Trump for support; tells Iranians ‘your liberation from tyranny is closer than ever’

It’s complicated. This pretty clearly targeting our “progressive” sheriff who the governor believes was installed by George Soros (I’m not joking).

The state already sued and took her to court to make her drop the city’s sanctuary policy that is a result of a federal consent decree. They lost in court, so they made this new law to try and force her instead.

It’s been a wild few months

Then after all that we still had the 10 inmates who escaped after being let out of her overcrowded and underfunded jail by a jail employee. This is also being blamed on “progressive policies” (Even though the reason it was overcrowded was bc the governor established a permanent police force in the city and filled the jails with people who were pulled over for things like window tint level and then arrested on unrelated charges.)

Because they are state police, they have never been bound by city rules, and they can do whatever they want. They have already been working with ICE this whole time. The governor has even released an EO that brought on 5 state agencies to already work with ICE that ranges from the National Guard to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (I’m not joking)

Still, he couldn’t just leave the city law enforcement alone, bc he couldn’t stand not having full control.

Idk why I’m asking this, but I’m genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?

I’ve made the Kent state comparison before

https://bsky.app/profile/pimentomori123.bsky.social/post/3lldidjovok24

I think most of the boomer age range Trump supporters (at least the ones in my family) are aware of Kent state and don’t have a favorable view towards what happened there. That’s why it’s important that they know this is happening, but for some reason it’s barely gotten any coverage

Those are owned by Native Americans… Not white billionaires

I’m not surprised by more of this sovereign state nonsense, I’m just disgusted that they’re proposing building it on a reservation.

I know, I didn’t mean people weren’t paying attention to the news. It kinda seems like it’s intentionally not being mentioned. It happened yesterday.

Well then, I guess it must have been some other Pudutr0n. You’re off the hook, for now…

That’s what the article is about.

This is the only news coverage I’ve seen of it, and most of America doesn’t even seem to know about it

Yeah I posted here a few days ago about trying to find a good alternative. I’m very sad to see lemme.ee go

Sorry if this is a dumb question, still figuring things our.

How else would you use the platform without joining an instance? Just have a private server?

I’m not 100% sure about actually preventing states from creating laws, but given what’s happening in my city rn I would imagine, if this passes, it gives federal agencies and private companies the ability to legally ignore any city and state regulations that might be passed.

My city used to have a complete ban on facial recognition and predictive policing tech after they were caught secretly working with Palantir. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance.

Police in my city got caught violating the very weak ordinance that regulates how facial recognition is supposed to be used.

Since WaPo exposed them, they’ve allegedly paused using the tech. However, the tech is provided by a private company, and the city can’t enforce their regulations on the state police and ICE agents that are still using the tech with zero oversight.

Given how we know states like TX have already signed up to have their national guard invade other states in order to enforce Trump’s immigration policy, this could provide legal protection for the Texas national guard to come into a state like California and use it however they deem necessary.

They could start out by saying it’s necessary to enforce immigration (which would be fucked up enough). Very quickly it becomes necessary to protect ICE agents from protestors, and they begin using facial recognition to track protestors and anyone loosely associated with protestors.

There’s no way for the city or state laws to do anything about this bc the Texas National Guard have essentially been given blanket protection by a federal law to use AI to enforce federal immigration policy. Essentially, instead of the national guard being sent to southern states to enforce civil rights like what happened in the 1960s, the national guard from a red state would be sent into a blue state to enforce a dystopian cyber-surveillance nightmare created by the federal government.

Keep in mind this is just one possibility. Even without all that happening, the best case scenario of allowing a ban on state regulations, is you’re providing legal protection for private corporations to collect data however they want and do whatever they want with it once it’s collected.